Australia regained Getting the Mandela Challenge Plate after winning Getting their two home tests Testing against South Africa .

The games received Receiving coverage from `` Good Morning America '' , `` Life '' , `` Maxim '' , MTV `` Road Rules/Real World Challenge '' , `` The Tonight Show '' , ABC , NBC , CBS , BBC , and Fox .

Melbourne Victory won the match Competition 1–0 and became Becoming the winners of the 2008–09 Championship , thus becoming Becoming the first team to win the A-League domestic treble , after also claiming Statement the 2008 Pre-Season Challenge Cup , and the 2008–09 Premiership .

This tournament Competition replaced Change the World Football Challenge Competition and was staged Hold mainly throughout the United States , and with one match Competition in Valencia , Spain .

It was one of seven 2009 pre-season friendly tournaments , the others being the Emirates Cup , the Barclays Asia Trophy , the World Football Challenge , the Wembley Cup , the Amsterdam Tournament and the Audi Cup .

The prize for winning was the Challenge Belt ; a player winning Getting the belt three successive years would keep Preserving it .

In a proposed competition Competition for a `` Challenge Belt '' , Fairlie sent Sending out a series of letters to Blackheath , Perth , Edinburgh , Musselburgh and St. Andrews , inviting Participation a player known as a `` respectable caddie '' to represent each of the clubs in a tournament to be held on 17 October 1860 .

It was the third final Competition of the world 's oldest football competition Competition , the Football Association Challenge Cup ( known in the modern era as the FA Cup ) .

It was the 11th Open Openness Championship and the last to be contested Competition for the Challenge Belt .

By winning Getting for a third successive time Tom Morris , Jr. gained Getting permanent possession of the Challenge Belt .